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Football games. I don't see any gameplay difference between one made in 2007 and the latest football game, so why people still decide to drop 60$ for the very same game every year is something i don't get.
Two reasons:
Its also important to note that a lot of sports game fans are just into that style of video game and buy consoles 6ust to play them. They aren't playing videogames just sports games.
This is the big thing.
I know many people who have had games consoles that have never played anything other than FIFA/EAFC
If any sports games where made for the first time today they'd probably just go the subscription model. You buy the base game and need to pay for annual subscription updates and access to multiplayer.
Essentially releasing a game every year is this but the ideal of the subscription model wasn't around back in 1995 when the first 3D sports games where releasing.
Actually, PES and FIFA used to get really good gameplay updates back in the 2000s. Like, the difference between FIFA 2002 and FIFA 2003 was massive, for example.
Then they realized they're too big to waste money on actual development and went all in on licenses and marketing. It's been shit ever since.
FOMO, mainly.
Bro, if you haven’t played FOMO26 yet, you’re really missing out
What's the point anymore, FOMO27 is coming out in 3 months
Cyberball on the Genesis was peak football gameplay. And probably the last one I ever played.
If there was a fan game that ran on donations, like stardew valley but on donations, one game could rule them all.
Or like, just make it a free commercial game but don't put any real players in it. Let the community do that, just intentionally make it moddable. The fans will do the rest.
Theres actually quite a huge difference. The animations are much better, the detail in ball control, unique player moves, real time stat updates and the multiplayer. Plus there is the collection aspect.
The last football game i played was in like 2002. The otger day i saw a friend of mine playing the new fifa (we probably talk about a different kind of football) and i asked him to stream it, because i was waiting for a download or something. The game looked obviously better, but damn these are some low effort games that make billions. BILLIONS. they are the reason that there wasn't a skate 4. Skate was the better game in every way possible. It even outsold fifa. But fifa made that microtransactions money. They don't fix bugs, you can still make the same cheap goals as you could do when i played it last. Glitchgoals they call it now i think, so you can win 20-0 every game. The announcers are just as bad as back then. They repeat the same catchphrases over and over. I asked him not 10min in if that is all they have to say.
Everyone can enjoy what they want, but in my honest opinion you have to be a special kimd of idiot if you support these games. They literally laugh at anyone's face dumb enough to buy their slop. Fifa 2026 sait fifa 2025 in the main menu at launch, that's how much they care.
I think skate 4 and Fifa are the exact same game. They are sports games with a high level of control for the ball and skateboard. Neither are better it depends on which sport you like.
Football like PES or FIFA? Or Madden?
Because PES was a whole different beast: like, a proper VG with actual meaningful gameplay changes (for the most part) between versions, and FIFA used to be like that in the 2000s.
IDK about Madden though; I only played a couple and they were fine, but I can't vouch for their quality or pinpoint when they stopped being fun.
PES on Wii was peak. You control one player with the nunchuk and with the remote you could tell your other players where to go. That was so, so refreshing, but unfortunately never went anywhere 😭. It was the only time I enjoyed some sports game, as I felt for the first time that I had some agency about what's going on.
Tribe
Tribe was a great game at its time though
That must be why they installed it in all those football stadiums.
People love to shit on the yearly FIFA releases, but if you genuinely can't see any gameplay differences between one released in 2007 and 2026 then you're either being disingenuous or haven't actually played them.
I own PES 2008 on my PS3, and never felt the need to upgrade throughout its many yearly upgrades. It was just a game to play with my brother if we wanted to play together.
Have tried EA 2026 football game on a playstation cafe with friends a few months ago and I did not think there was anything new compared to what i played as a kid. Sure, you can play the game at 4K, but I don't even own a 4K TV, and certainly not getting one when all the tv brands keep putting smart tv crap with ads on them.